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  The taxi driver took us down From great Mohonk, New Paltz and such; And every mile we got to...

—from A Gallery of Ethopaths The bookshops that we used to see Were citadels of literacy. Classics of grace and...

Natura Naturans “Off with their heads,” the Red Queen said. But she was mostly talk. A true decapitator is The...

The Thoughts of a Dog What really does go on inside the mind Of the domestic dog? To simply say...

Good Captains From daring to despair runs common man. A vane to changing winds is his own mind. One hour...

Her Love for Him My true love laughs, and angel choirs sing; The mountains echo back his tuneful mirth While...

These Twins These twins came forth in one amniotic sac. They sensed the danger they had come upon And both...

A reading of the below poems by the poet:   The Loan a villanelle This life we hold so dear...

One Love In all the world there’s but one Love, just one. A single substance—like the billow lit From overhead...

  I lift my eyes and pray to God above, deliver me, dear Lord, from Satan's Hell. I come to...

  The sausage on my plate is rubbery and inoffensive A clever likeness made of turkey meat Not your tastiest...

May Old Glory Always Wave by Roy E. Peterson May Old Glory always wave Above the tumult and the fray....

Translator's Note: "Adiutor Laborantium" is an Irish poem attributed to Colum Cille (521-597), founder of the monastic community on Iona....

  Side by side, like toy soldiers under the sky, these seedlings all stand in a row. And on this...

Judges: Michael Curtis, Amy Foreman, Reid McGrath, Adam Sedia A few words from Judge Michael Curtis: In apology: If you,...

  It comes as no surprise that “golf” When backward spelled is “flog.” For it’s a sport so hard to...

Dead Poet Of what I was, not much remains, but that which does, indeed still strains to craft and pen...

Kingfishers and Kites Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;...

Doomsday… or Not? The Green New Deal is out there, and Bernie says it’s true— there’s only twelve more years...

G-Mafia "Let us now praise freedom's twilight..." —Osip Mandelstam by Esca Webuilder We live without the feeling of the country...

Disappointment The waiting's not the hardest part: Much worse is when you finally know That what you craved with all...

  The ambit is the noblest cause, A last vestige of Apollo's love, A pursuit freed from any flaws, As...

  The human body is perpetually pregnant with Trillions of microorganisms that hath colonized Its intestinal lair, and like the...

The Hong Kong Protest Hymn by Lu "Reed ABCs" Wei The Christian hymn "Sing Hallelujah to the Lord" emerged as...

Planned Parenthood's a Euphemism upon reading March for Life's annual report by Roy E. Peterson Planned Parenthood’s a euphemism __Covering...

  I Spent My Youth with Byron and the Bard I spent my youth with Byron and the Bard, With...

Note: Formal Ballroom Dance competition involves five specific dance forms. This sonnet cycle attempts to introduce and describe them. I...

Cicadas There is, I know, some benefit in this, this cycle of emerging, breeding, dying- so brief a time for...

The Limerick I’d Love to Write by Joe Tessitore There once was a President Trump And many thought he was...

  A song’s composer’s music might reveal A question or idea in such a way That black notes penned on...

  Birthday Greeting to a Doomed Child a song of lament decrying New York´s “birthday abortion” law, approved January 22,...

  To fight a fight on ground of your own choosing, To force the foe to battle at your pleasure...

  Its coarse name belies this silken treasure, with iridescent dome and spiral apse. Imagination slips in with pleasure, to...

These poems are part of Daniel Galef’s series Imaginary Sonnets. Each sonnet is a verse soliloquy from the perspective of...

I Am One, Then "In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of Hell" - Isaiah...

Icarus’ Fall at College   Prologue Dear reader, surely, you must think, __“What could be taught to us That we...

  Forgetting the Tiananmen Square Massacre for 30 Years Robbed of life and liberty in open air, Young citizens ran...

  Half man, half monster—I am in a maze. They banished me because of others’ sins. Among these walls, I’m...

a satirical piece in Sapphic stanzas   Every day they come in a flood: unwanted Big manila envelopes stuffed with...

The clerihew is a kind of epigrammatic verse (normally) consisting of a pair of rhyming couplets. The first line will...